Reports & Publications
Books
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| Software Management, 7th Edition, IEEE Computer Society, 2006. |
The 7th edition of this popular text has been updated with materials to help readers better manage their software projects. |
| The Poor Person’s Guide to Estimating Software Costs, IEEE ReadyNote, 2006. |
This guide offers a step-by-step process for estimating software costs. It provides formulas that software developers need to estimate the effort involved in delivering software. |
| Making the Software Business Case, Addison-Wesley, 2001. | This book helps engineers to justify expenditures and prepare successful business cases. It provides useful examples of what to and what not to do via case studies. |
| Software Cost Estimation with COCOMO II, Prentice-Hall, 2000. |
This textbook explains the COCOMO II model and discusses how to use it to develop accurate cost and schedule estimates for software projects. |
| Practical Software Reuse, John Wiley & Sons, 1997. |
This book provides readers with suggested ways to introduce software product line, architecture and reuse concepts into their organizations. |
Reports
The following reports are available for download.
| CONIPMO Overview (Download 325kb MS Word Document) | Oct 2006 | This paper provides an overview of the model that we are developing to estimate the costs of network defense and anti-tamper options called CONIPMO. |
| Let the Numbers do the Talking (Download 135kb Adobe Acrobat Document) | Mar 2002 | This paper provides software cost and productivity benchmarks for twelve application domains. |
| Web Objects Counting Conventions (Download 106kb MS Word Document) | Mar 2002 | This white paper provides readers with a glimpse of the counting conventions that we developed for web objects (for use in the WEBMO cost model). |